FC2 ate my system

[Christopher Stone]

Well, you probably should have done some more research into the bug
before installing Fedora.  But just to play devil's advocate, if this
is such a major critical bug, then how come Microsoft hasn't "fixed"
their installer to recognize linux partitions?  Do you same people
complain to Microsoft for not recognizing Linux????

On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:38:58 +0000, Roy Brown <brown_r at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, it looks like I hit the dreaded dual-boot bug.  I hadn't realized it
> affected Win2K in addition to WinXP.  After failing to boot into my Windows
> partition, I decided to give up on FC2.  I tried reinstalling my previous
> Linux (Libranet 2.8) in the hope that it would fix the broken boot stuff.
> No luck.  Then I tried a "repair" with Windows...failure.  Then I tried to
> reinstall Windows from scratch (including deleting all
> partitions)...failure.  Any ideas what to try next?  I just want a working
> Windows system again.  I didn't see anything about LBA mode in my BIOS
> options (Albatron MB with i845PE chipset).
> 
> PS: this is an amazingly bad bug to let into a release.  Is there going to
> be a "fixed" version of FC2?  I would have thought that a bug this bad would
> have warranted pulling the release until it was fixed.  It doesn't just not
> install, it screws up your system.  Was this problem in FC2T3 or was it
> introduced in the final release?
> 
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